In one of the farmhouses in the English county of Somerset found the hoof of an Arabian horse named Marengo, owned by the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, reports the Times.

The stallion took part in battles at Austerlitz (1805), Jena (1806) and Wagram (1809). He also participated in the Edition notes that the missing part of the Emperor's steed was found 202 years after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, in a cabinet drawer.

Earlier the house belonged to a wealthy English family, who acquired a stallion after the final defeat of the Bonaparte troops at Waterloo in June 1815. The defeated Napoleon was sent to St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, and his horse was sent to the UK via the English Channel as a military trophy.

Her new owner was the British officer William Angerstein. Marengo was kept on the farm until his death in 1831. At that time, the horse was 38 years old.

From the hoofs Marengo Angerstein made two boxes for snuff that showed to the guests after dinner parties. Any guest could take a pinch of tobacco from an inlaid snuffbox inlaid with silver.

Later, one of them, with a commemorative engraving, he presented the brigade of the guardsmen of the St. James Palace in London. The second snuffbox was left in the family of Angerstein. For a long time it was considered lost.

After the hoof was discovered, it was transferred by the new owner as a gift to the London Museum of the Palace Cavalry. The Marengo skeleton is exhibited at the Army Museum in London's Chelsea district. Thus the horse of Napoleon became the object of three British exhibitions at once.

The publication writes that the authenticity of the hoof found was confirmed by DNA examination.

However, the controversy surrounding the skeleton of the stallion, named after the battle victorious for Napoleon at the Italian Marengo (1800), does not cease. Immediately two cities in Ireland claim the remains of Marengo. They rely on documents according to which local stables sold the stallion to the emperor, which means that his skeleton should be kept and exhibited at them.

Data on what the prospects of this case and whether, together with the skeleton, the hoofs of the stallion have to be returned, the publication does not have.

Recall, in December last year in the UK found fifty skeletons of the first monks of the country. Most of the remains belonged to adult men, two of them - adolescents. In addition, women's skeletons were also found, which could have belonged to nuns who were visiting the monastery, or patronesses. The remains belong to the 5th-6th century AD.